Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.